Before the le Stranges became powerful Marcher lords, their story belonged to East Anglia. Meet Matilda, heiress of lands at Hunstanton and Barnham, whose marriage to Roland le Strange helped establish an historic Family. From her intriguing le Brun name to the estates she inherited, we explore the world, upbringing and connections of this remarkable early twelfth-century noblewoman.

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From Houghton-on-the-Hill in Domesday Norfolk to the Haughtons of twelfth-century Shropshire, an intriguing trail emerges around the early le Strange family. Herluin fitz Ivo disappears from the record, only for Hamo le Strange to appear decades later in the FitzAlan world of Haughmond Abbey, taking over Osbaston — the land from which Knockin would emerge — from a family called Haughton. Coincidence, or is there a missing chapter still waiting to be found?